I have always been discovering new things about Linux distros while distro hopping. And when I get something I really like, I just copy the package name and make sure I install it in every distro I use in the future.

Let me start:

  1. Clipboard manager (Gpaste)
  2. KDE connect
  • @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
    7•11 months ago

    I’d probably say the vast amount of packages that can be installed via the AUR, but since the rising popularity of Flatpak, we’re getting incredibly close to this.

    My next want would be having the ability to make your system declarative (at least, the initial config) in a fashion that NixOS and Guix do.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
      4•11 months ago

      I have really come to depend on rolling-release systems. I have a few alliances that run Ubuntu, because of a dependency on vendor packages and insufficient interest in fighting with software+hardware issues, and I hate when I have to deal with them. The paupacy of software, the frequent breakage on release upgrades; I don’t know how people who prefer these systems justify how bad they are in comparison to Arch (or Nix, or any other rolling release-based distro).

      I haven’t yet done it, but Arch is so reliable I’m tempted to create a daily -Syu cron job (or, more precisely, a systemd timer job, because I’m only yet running Artix on a couple of systems). The only thing that gives me pause are the kernel updates, which are frequency and necessitate system reboots.

      Those kernel updates really make me wish Linus had focused on a microkernel architecture.

    • eshep
      0•11 months ago

      @Owell1984 @russjr08 Things usually have a .deb or .rpm available which almost always unpack and run with no issue regardless of distro.

      • @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
        2•11 months ago

        Oh for sure (and a lot of AUR packages are exactly just that), but nothing beats the simplicity and speed of running a quick sudo pacman -S package_name and then being up and running :)